Christine Ortiz is the dean of graduate education at the

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(MIT), and Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. The goal of Ortiz's research program is a mechanistic-based understanding of tissue function, quality, and

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. She is planning to create a new university, centered on project-based learning.

Education

*BS,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

, 1992 *PhD,

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, 1997

References

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